The site measures just eighteen metres across at its widest, and the visible evidence of graves inside numbers no more than two. It was not a parish cemetery, nor a monastic enclosure. According to local tradition, it was reserved exclusively for members of a single family.

The ground is reputed to have served as a Quaker burial ground, restricted entirely to members of the Whitside family, a detail recorded in the Ordnance Survey Name Books compiled in the nineteenth century. Quaker burial practice tended toward simplicity and plainness, which may help explain why so little is visible inside the enclosure today. The site appears on the 1834 and 1907 editions of the Ordnance Survey six-inch maps, marked in the distinctive italic lettering used to denote antiquities, simply as "Grave Yard." The enclosure itself is defined by an earthen bank, still intact on the northern side where it stands roughly a metre high on its outer face, and the whole is entered through a gate with masonry piers on the eastern side. Dr S. A. D'Arcy noted the site's Quaker association in 1897, situating it within the broader landscape of Monaghan's lesser-documented burial traditions.

The enclosure is grass-covered and, from a distance, could easily be taken for a tree-ringed field boundary or a collapsed ringfort. The circular form, the earthen bank, and the elevated position on otherwise level ground give it a quiet distinctiveness that repays a second look.